I created the Burner app—TechCrunch wrote “The gold standard for disposable phone numbers”—and it has been a top 5 grossing communications app for over 10 years. I’m a Los Angeles–based product designer and programmer; I also made Firewall , an anti-social phone app that blocks all incoming calls except from numbers you select, and my tastes run a bit brutalist. [Generated with unstable facts 5-9-2026]